Mindy Kaling was interviewed on yesterday’s Howard Stern show and in discussing her breakout play Matt & Ben which she created with Brenda Withers, called PS122 “this really cool institution downtown.” Thanks for the shoutout Mindy! We have followed Mindy’s career enthusiastically and hope she can come see the new building when its finished!
Category: PS122 Artists
Get a Good Night’s Sleep at Dream of the Red Chamber
Jim Findlay, a PS122 artist whose performed on our stages more times than we can count, closes up shop this weekend at his newest installation work Dream of the Red Chamber, a performance for a sleeping audience presented by The Time Square Arts in production with 3-Legged Dog and Collapsable Giraffe. If you haven’t experienced it yet, we urge you to run to this absolutely FREE performance event.
Dream of the Red Chamber is created to be a dream play. The audience is invited to experience and partake in the work meanwhile they fall in and out of sleep. The set creates an inviting environment that facilitates sleep, while the live performance inspired by Cao Xueqin’s 18th century Chinese novel “Dream of the Red Chamber” — an epic love story between a stone and a flower – is performed, gently trying to shape the audience’s dreams
If you’re around Times Square this weekend stop by, hop in, & take a nap.
Dream of the Red Chamber, a performance for a sleeping audience.
by Jim Findlay
Brill Building / 1619 Broadway (between 49th and 50th)
May 16 – 5pm to 12m
May 17 – 5pm to 6am
John Fleck Documentary Sneak Peak
Filmmaker Kevin Duffy made a documentary about one of our Gala honorees, John Fleck called “JOHN FLECK IS WHO YOU WANT HIM TO BE.” Check out the trailer here, and see the full film on tonight’s sneak peak screening on firedoglake.com at 8pm EST.
Tom Murrin Performance Festival
East Village performance legend and PS122 favorite Tom Murrin is being celebrated tonight with the kickoff of the first annual Tom Murrin Full Moon Performance Festival at Lamama.
A celebration of the wildly inventive works of Tom Murrin
featuring plays, readings, street performances, art, and more.
More info: https://lamama.org/now-playing/tomfest/
Here’s a video of Tom performing at PS122:
Around the World and back
Editor’s note: A long-time PS122 family member (previous box office manager and performer) asked me to help spread the word on this and I couldn’t be more excited to do so. Not only is this a prime example of collaboration from multiple playwrights stationed around the globe (which I love), but it’s also FREE with wine + cheese to enjoy at the end of it (which I doubly love). Thursday night date, anyone?
The Staged Reading of the Second Annual
Around-the-Globe Chain Play
March 27th, 7pm
@ The Lark Play Development Center
311 West 43rd Street, NYC
Starting and ending in NYC, a play is being written as it travels around the world making 15 stops with playwrights from across the globe. Each playwright will contribute the next one to four pages of text, moving the plot forward from where the previous playwright left off.
Featuring: Charles Browning, Holly Chou, Jamie Effros, JoJo McCabe, Reynaldo Piniella, Patricia Randell, Evan Thompson, and Sarah Todes
Directed by: Sherri Kronfeld
The playwrights include Lisa Kron (USA, NYC), Aditi Kapil (USA, Minneapolis), Nicolas Billon (Canada), Luz Estrada (Colombia), Thomas Sainsbury (New Zealand), Nick Yu (China), Anuvab Pal (India), Oded Liphshiz (Israel), Lily Bevan (United Kingdom), Nina Mitrovic (Croatia), Phillip M Dikotla (South Africa), Amy Conroy (Ireland), Lana Nasser (The Netherlands), Sol Rodríguez Seoane (Argentina), and Chisa Hutchinson (USA, NYC).
The reading will be followed by a World Theatre Day Reception where a number of NYC theatre luminaries will read the International Theatre Institute’s World Theatre Day Message that will be written this year by South African playwright, designer, director, and installation-maker, Brett Bailey.
TICKETS ARE FREE; reservations required
nycwtdchainplay2014.eventbrite.com
The reading will also be live streamed on innovativetheatre.org/live.